Quotes About Meaning

Ik ga naar huis, hier dicht bij, naar wie ik liefheb, naar de mensen, met wie ik verbonden wil zijn. Jawel, mevrouw, die 'liaisons', altijd veranderend van kleur en inhoud, zijn de zin van mijn bestaan.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

No me importaba el sentido de la vida. Lo único que quería era saber cómo vivir. Tal vez si uno descubría cómo vivir podría deducir de ahí el sentido de la vida

What you don't write is often more important than what you do

Life took on quite a special meaning in this early morning solitude.

Siempre hemos vivido para crear buenos recuerdos, no para olvidar. Toda cultura se basa en la conservación y la búsqueda de recuerdos del pasado y, al mismo tiempo, en la creación de nuevos recuerdos. El arte mira hacia atrás y hacia delante.

Tener la posibilidad de decidir a qué quiere uno dedicar su vida es un gran privilegio.

Acknowledging one's fear of the unknown is realising what it means to be a person. Our existence is basically a tragedy. Throughout our lives we strive to increase our knowledge, our abilities, our experiences. But the bottom line is that all of that will be lost in oblivion.

Ihminen voi elää juurettomana. Mutta kuolla ei voi tietämättä, mihin työntää viimeiset ja kaikkein arvokkaimmat juurensa.

Police work is a question of piecing together tentative solutions. We have to make the gaps speak and the pieces tell us about things that have hidden meanings. We have to try to see through the events, turn them on their heads in order to set them on their feet.

in the end it comes down to a who and a why. Only one who. And one lone why.

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful...

Your life, my life, is given graciously by God. Our lives are not problems to be solved but journeys to be taken

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

Not being welcome is your greatest fear. It connects with your birth fear, your fear of not being welcome in this life, and your death fear, your fear of not being welcome in the life after this. It is the deep-seated fear that it would have been better if you had not lived.

Getting answers to my questions is not the goal of the spiritual life. Living in the presence of God is the greater call.

Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.

Still, as long as you keep pointing to the specifics, you will miss the full meaning of your pain. You will deceive yourself into believing that if the people, circumstances, and events had been different, your pain would not exist. This might be partly true, but

To be bored, therefore, does not mean that we have nothing to do, but that we question the value of the things we are so busy doing. The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time.

Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

It is in this solitude that we discover that being is more important than having, and that we are worth more than the result of our efforts.

However, if I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential. It's so easy to spend your whole time being preoccupied with urgent matters and never starting to live, really live.

When we are spiritually deaf, we are not aware that anything important is happening in our lives. We keep running away from the present moment, and we try to create experiences that make our lives worthwhile. So we fill up our time to avoid the emptiness we otherwise would feel.

being alive means being loved.